FSU researchers determine a critical factor in workings of proteins
...stry section of the National Institutes of Health, described the Structure paper as "the most comprehensive investigation yet conducted of protein-protein association rate. It provides convincing evidence that the remarkable simplification of the calculation of association rates between proteins, proposed by Z...New species declared: Clouded leopard on Borneo and Sumatra
...tland and lead author of the scientific paper that described the new species. “It’s incredible that no one has ever noticed these differences.? The new clouded leopard species is generally darker than the mainland species, has small cloud markings, many distinct spots within the cloud markings, grayer fur, ...Erectile dysfunction in diabetes is due to selective defect in the brain
...ion and the loss of seminal emission have all been described by such patients. This study examined induced penile erection, yawning and stretch in diabetic rats. Male Sprague-Dawley rats treated with streptozotocin (STZ) to induce diabetes were used as they exhibit sexual and behavioral symptoms similar to th...Scientists create dual-modality microbeads to improve identification of disease biomarkers
... Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, described the process of creating these novel beads and their clinical applications on Jan. 20 at SPIE Photonics West in San Jose, California. The work was also published in the Aug. 15 issue of Analytical Chemistry. The technology involves embedding f...Napoleon's mysterious death unmasked, UT Southwestern researcher says
...d that no benign cancer could look like the lesion described in the autopsy. "It was a huge mass from the en...d. That's because the autopsy of Napoleon's father described a tumor that might have been something other than gastric cancer. And because autopsies were not per...New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
...ver since 1947, six years before its structure was described by Watson and Crick. His fundamental Natural Scien...e studied the effects of radiation on insects, and described the mechanisms by which control of insect pests by X-irradiation is achieved. From there, he acce...Cancer that colonizes our bodies
...ver since 1947, six years before its structure was described by Watson and Crick. His fundamental Natural Scien...e studied the effects of radiation on insects, and described the mechanisms by which control of insect pests by X-irradiation is achieved. From there, he acce...Speeding 'fingertip' discovery -- 20 years of protein info in 1 place
...se now contains about 16,000 phosphorylation sites described in the literature and the PhosphoMotif Finder tool allows any researcher to find potential phosphorylation sites in any protein of interest. “The power of this technique is not just in the numbers,?says Pandey. “Rather, we’ve found what you might...Stanford scientists make major breakthrough in regenerative medicine
Findings described in a new study by Stanford scientists may be the f...al, but are unsuccessful. If the genetic sequence described in the sea squirt applies to humans, this study represents a major step for regenerative medicine. ...Gene hunters close in on Lou Gehrig’s disease
...ory of the disease. In the Johns Hopkins study, described in the online version of Lancet Neurology this month, Traynor and his team scanned the entire genome of 276 adult male and female subjects with sporadic ALS and 271 adult male and female subjects with no history of neurological disease. Researcher...Microfluidic chip helps solve cellular mating puzzle
...the mating habits of yeast cells. The findings, described in the Feb. 18 Advance Online Publication of the journal Nature, shed new light on the way cells send and receive signals from one another and from the environment through a process called signal transduction. That process, when impaired, can lead to...Scientists produce neurons from human skin
... such as Parkinson’s disease. Berthod and his team described the method used to produce these neurons in a recent issue of the Journal of Cellular Physiology. The researchers used skin obtained from plastic surgery procedures. They subjected these skin samples to various treatments in order to extract neuron ...Biologically inspired sensors can augment sonar, vision system in submarines
... at Illinois and at Bowling Green State University described their work in the Dec. 12, 2006, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To fabricate the tiny, three-dimensional structures, individual components are first cast in place on sacrificial layers using photolithography and plana...Cracking open the black box of autoimmune disease
... greater precision." The immune system is often described as a kind of military unit, a defense network that guards the body from invaders. Seen in this way, a group of white blood cells called T cells are the frontline soldiers of immune defense, engaging invading pathogens head on. These T cells are c...Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates
...argely being attributed to the antibiotic policies described in the paper", he adds. The authors think their study could be a useful reference for other centres where cephalosporin use is higher than in the Royal Free. Compared with many other hospitals, cephalosporin use was already low at the beginning of...Engineering the heart piece by piece
...muscle than ever before. Previously, the group described the results of a self organization strategy, showi...uirements of patients. All of these approaches are described in the recent review article. The new article, by Birla and lead author Louise Hecker, a gradua...Scientists discover new species of distinctive cloud-forest rodent
...barabrownae, as the new species has been named, is described in the current issue of Mastozoología Neotropical (Neotropical mammalogy), the principal mammalogy journal of South America. A color illustration of the bushy rodent graces the cover of the journal. It and another color illustration of the new specie...Newly discovered fish named after New York aquarium biologist
...pecies are found nowhere else on earth. The newly described black and gold cichlid is about five inches long, and known locally as a "garaka." It occurs in several river system in the northeastern part of the country. Loiselle himself has discovered ?? fifteen freshwater fishes during his fourteen years o...Genomics throws species definition in question for microbes
..., systematics, ecology, physiology and other areas described the history of microbial taxonomy, the state of the field today, and how work in the field should proceed in the future. The report is a record of their comments and recommendations. In the late 1800s, in order to make sense of the vast diversit...Swimming 'to the left' gets bacteria upstream, and may promote infection
...ropensity to swim upstream has been discovered and described in bacteria." To study the hydrodynamics of these bacteria in a flow environment, Köser's team constructed microfluidic devices using soft lithography. Inside the devices they set up various flow patterns to observe the bacteria in channels tha...